Iserson, Kenneth Victor

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ISERSON, Kenneth Victor

ISERSON, Kenneth Victor. American, b. 1949. Genres: Criminology/True Crime, Education, Ethics, History, Medicine/Health, Biography, Reference. Career: Cincinnati General Hospital, OH, emergency medicine residency, 1976-78, chief resident, 1977-78; Community Mercy Hospital, Onamia, MN, general practice, 1976; Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, clinical associate professor and chairman, 1980-81; University of Arizona College of Medicine, section of emergency medicine, department of surgery, emergency physician, 1981-, assistant professor, 1981-85, associate professor, 1985-92, professor, 1992-. University of Chicago, senior fellow in bioethics, 1990-91. Medical Society US & Mexico, vice president, 2002-04. Journal of Emergency Medicine, ethics section editor, 1990-; Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, abstract editor, 1991-. Publications: (ed. with A.B. Sanders and D.R. Mathieu) Ethics in Emergency Medicine, 1986, 2nd ed., 1995; Getting into a Residency, 1988, 6th ed., 2003; Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?, 1994, 2nd ed., 2000; Get into Medical School!, 1997, 2nd ed., 2004; Non-standard Medical Electives in the U.S. and Canada, 1997, 2nd ed., 1998; Grave Words, 1999; Pocket Protocols, 1999; Demon Doctors, 2002. Author of professional journal articles, textbook chapters, and other publications. Reviewer for medical journals. Address: Dept of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona, College of Medicine Box 245057, 1501 N Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85724, U.S.A.